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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - PHC6180
Tracking Number - 5198
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Current Status:
Approved by SCNS - 2016-07-01
Campus: Tampa
Submission Type: Change
Course Change Information (for course changes only): Delete the undergraduate accounting prerequisite and revise prerequisite to:
PHC 6102 (pre-requisite or co-requisite)
Comments: Required - MHA, MPH-HCO; to GC. Approved. SCNS apprd eff 7/1/16
Detail Information
- Date & Time Submitted: 2015-02-17
- Department: Health Policy and Management
- College: PH
- Budget Account Number: 640400
- Contact Person: Somer Burke
- Phone: 8139746606
- Email: sburke@health.usf.edu
- Prefix: PHC
- Number: 6180
- Full Title: Health Services Management
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum):
- Course Online?: C -
Face-to-face (0% online)
- Percentage Online: 0
- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: PHC 6102 and undergraduate accounting course
- Corequisites: none
- Course Description: Advanced study of specific topics in health care organization management including the managerial process, organizational theory, resource utilization and control, and human resource management.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Needed for program/concentration/certificate change
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? Students in two degree concentrations are required to take this course.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times?
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) no change
- Objectives: t the conclusion of the course the student should be able to:
1. Identify the roles and responsibilities of the health services manager.
2. Apply scientific operational definitions (e.g., efficiency, effectiveness, and quality) and their measurement to health services management topics.
3. Describe process management methods and tools and appropriately apply them to health services management problems in paper/presentation assignments.
4. Determine values and ethics of a competent health services manager through health services management case studies.
5. Demonstrate analytical thinking acumen, professionalism, and written/oral communication skills through health services management cases and paper/presentation assignments.
6. Describe management and organizational design improvement methods, including formal and informal decision making skills and workforce diversity.
7. Distinguish management from leadership, and comprehend concepts related to leadership, including conceptual approaches and styles of leadership.
8. Understand management control approaches, including budgeting, knowledge management, and organizational governance practices of effective healthcare organizations.
9. Discuss effective relationship management, including physician engagement.
10. Differentiate marketing, strategy, human resources, information systems, reimbursement, and legal and regulatory issues of the various types of healthcare organizations (e.g., hospitals).
- Learning Outcomes: no change
- Major Topics: Evidence-based Management
Role of the Manager
Control
Managing performance
Leadership
Organizational design
Human resource management
Professional Integration
- Textbooks: Health Services Management: Cases, Readings, and Commentary, Tenth Edition by McAlearney and Kovner
- Course Readings, Online Resources, and Other Purchases: none
- Student Expectations/Requirements and Grading Policy: Assessment Strategy Percentage
Midterm exam 20%
Final exam 15%
EBMgt Problem Summary 5%
Quizzes (3 x 5%) 15%
Case summary (2 x 5%) 10%
Health Services Management problem paper 20%
Oral presentation (based on paper) 10%
Class participation and attendance 5%
Total 100%
- Assignments, Exams and Tests: Assessment Strategy Percentage
Midterm exam 20%
Final exam 15%
EBMgt Problem Summary 5%
Quizzes (3 x 5%) 15%
Case summary (2 x 5%) 10%
Health Services Management problem paper 20%
Oral presentation (based on paper) 10%
Class participation and attendance 5%
Total 100%
- Attendance Policy: Course Attendance at First Class Meeting – Policy for Graduate Students: For structured courses, 6000 and above, the College/Campus Dean will set the first-day class attendance requirement. Check with the College for specific information. This policy is not applicable to courses in the following categories: Educational Outreach, Open University (TV), FEEDS Program, Community Experiential Learning (CEL), Cooperative Education Training, and courses that do not have regularly scheduled meeting days/times (such as, directed reading/research or study, individual research, thesis, dissertation, internship, practica, etc.). Students are responsible for dropping undesired courses in these categories by the 5th day of classes to avoid fee liability and academic penalty. (See USF Regulation – Registration - 4.0101,
http://usfweb2.usf.edu/usfgc/ogc%20web/currentreg.htm)
Attendance Policy for the Observance of Religious Days by Students: In accordance with Sections 1006.53 and 1001.74(10)(g) Florida Statutes and Board of Governors Regulation 6C-6.0115, the University of South Florida (University/USF) has established the following policy regarding religious observances: (http://usfweb2.usf.edu/usfgc/gc_pp/acadaf/gc10-045.htm)
In the event of an emergency, it may be necessary for USF to suspend normal operations. During this time, USF may opt to continue delivery of instruction through methods that include but are not limited to: Blackboard, Elluminate, Skype, and email messaging and/or an alternate schedule. It’s the responsibility of the student to monitor Blackboard site for each class for course specific communication, and the main USF, College, and department websites, emails, and MoBull messages for important general information.
- Policy on Make-up Work: no change
- Program This Course Supports: MHA and MPH-HCO
- Course Concurrence Information: no change
- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.